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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DICKINSON, EMILY (1830-1886) Matches Found: 153 A LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like me, you used to write while baking bread Last Line: I take from you as you take me apart Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) AFTER THE POETRY READING; FOR MARIE HOWE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If emily dickinson lived in the 1990's Last Line: Her fly buzzes me all the way home Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry Readings ALTITUDES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look up into the dome: / it is a great salon, a brilliant place Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) ALTITUDES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look up into the dome: %it is a great salon, a brilliant place Last Line: To pace abut his garden, lost in thought Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) AMHERST WITH FRIES, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: When the bored cashier at burger king Last Line: As a line forms all day in front of her Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Restaurants AMHERST: MAY 15, 1987, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oriole, a charred and singing coal Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) AMHERST: MAY 15, 1987, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The oriole, a charred and singing coal Last Line: By bloodshed on iwo jima, in leyte gulf and belleau wood Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) AMHERST: ONE DAY, FIVE POETS: 2, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cupola is a windowed cage Last Line: She wanted to know %if her poems breathed Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres Last Line: And truncated a woman's chronicle, %and plain old margaret fuller died as well Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A BECAUSE I COULD NOT DUMP, by ANDREA PATERSON Poem Source First Line: Because I could not dump the trash Last Line: And hoped joe'd come my way Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) BETWEEN THE LINES, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, alive, seldom put yourself Last Line: Containedly, between the lines Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) CALLED BACK', by ROBERT B. SHAW Poem Source First Line: We came -- a century or so Last Line: Your postscript to the world declares %how potent absence is Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) CIRCA 1861, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother? I'm here again to freshen the water - lots Subject(s): :dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Radio COMMENT ON THIS: IN THE REAL SCHEME OF THINGS, POETRY IS MARGINAL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things - / the empty wine bottle under the bed Last Line: "I'm nobody,"" she spoke for us all." Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers COMPLAYNT; AFTER EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm wanton - no I've stopped that Last Line: Continue! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form; Mothers DAY OF EMILY DICKINSON'S FUNERAL, by MARION BUCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Higginson came Last Line: Into her hands %to greet god with Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) DECONSTRUCTION OF EMILY DICKINSON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lecture had ended when I came in Last Line: After all that humbug. But she was silent Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) DEDICATION FOR A PLOT OF GROUND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This plot of ground Last Line: But your carcass, keep out. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) DESIRE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't speak and it isn't schooled Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DESIRE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't speak and it isn't schooled Last Line: Deeper than the brain's detail; the drive to feel Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the lives I cannot live Last Line: Not over, but upon Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DICKINSON, BISHOP, AND STEIN, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: When stein spoke of roses she said it was Last Line: Confound our simple grasp Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) EMILY, by PETER NICHOLSON Poem Source First Line: Now the bride of poetry beckons Last Line: Yet ours, at the end, your perfection Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On that page where the whole world moved Last Line: Where the right word again begins time Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by MELVILLE CANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Inclosed withing a hedge Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %emily dickinson Last Line: Send for the cops Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Writing And Writers EMILY DICKINSON, by LUCHA CORPI Poem Source First Line: Like you, I belong to yesterday Last Line: Workers in search of %floating gardens as yet %unsown, as yet unharvested Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw a laughing girl Last Line: In a long, in a wind-drawn sigh Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by PAUL HAMILTON ENGLE Poem Source First Line: Demonic yankee who could taste Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry And Poets EMILY DICKINSON, by MAE WINKLER GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: She spoke the dialect of birds Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by INGER HAGERUP Poem Source First Line: Very spindly. Very little Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I, the easy one, was hurt Last Line: Save that sweet witch who knew at once %my idiom of pain Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by PATRICIA Y. IKEDA Poem Source First Line: She being too much for life the rare person with no need to travel the Last Line: That intense sweetness is bitter that white fire frost Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by MAGGIE (ARONOFF) JAFFE Poem Source First Line: One of the few women Last Line: 15 (dead) white men & emily. %shoot the canon! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Emily dickinson, I think of you Last Line: Gradual as flowers, gradual as rust Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We think of her hidden in a white dress Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We think of her hidden in a white dress Last Line: Of vision, the serious mischief %of language, the economy of pain Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, by GARY SMITH Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: I've defended you against the many Last Line: You would have discovered copper within Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON AND GERARD MANELY HOPKINS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My notebook shows they took a formal cruise, Last Line: Was warped for good. I am the living proof. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): Emily Dickinson And Gerard Manley Hopkins Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Heritage; Heredity EMILY DICKINSON AND KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emily dickson's father yanked on the baptist bell Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Baptists; Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980) EMILY DICKINSON AT COLEVILLE, by HAROLD WITT Poem Source First Line: We never know how high we are, I said Last Line: Hoping my heightened cubits wouldn't warp Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON AT COLEVILLE, by HAROLD VERNON WITT Poem Source First Line: We never know how high we are, I said Last Line: I sat there quoting her on a rocky slope, %hoping my heightened cubits wouldn't warp Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON ATTENDS A WRITING WORKSHOP, by JAYNE RELAFORD BROWN Poem Source First Line: Why plural? %and why all the caps? %(- and dashes? Last Line: I'd like to see you bring this %through workshop again Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON IN BOSTON, 1864-65, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: That daguerreotype, with its strabismic gaze Last Line: It's dislocated fear I sense -- a blur -- and hurry on Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry And Poets EMILY DICKINSON IN HELL, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How flat - as a democracy Last Line: To find my father - there Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON IN LOVE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When sue walked in and saw them Last Line: Before she wakes up and discovers it's her own Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON IN LOVE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When sue walked in and saw them Last Line: So sweet, so thick, it was almost overwhelming Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I called one day - on eden's strand Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON LEAVES A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD, NOW THAT HER HOMESTEAD, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for breath Last Line: Was seldom home - to me Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON READING WALT WHITMAN, by BERNARD LEVI ST. ARMAND Poem Source First Line: I heard he was disgraceful, and he is! Last Line: He did not take and burn it afterwards Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S ANKLE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Shitfaced at deer camp Last Line: Distant, tideless %landscape Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S DEFUNCT, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She used to / pack poems Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S DEFUNCT, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She used to %pack poems Last Line: And buzzed %when she died Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S MIRROR, AMHERST, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its flecked surface a map of disappearing islands Last Line: Share wholly. The purist's god. Pride's mirror and island Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S MIRROR, AMHERST, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Its flecked surface a map of disappearing islands Last Line: Share wholly. The purist's god. Pride's mirror and island Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S ROOM, MAIN STREET, AMHERST, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: Down through the cross of her windows Last Line: And locked into place by ice Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S SESTINA FOR MOLLY BLOOM, by BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ Poem Source First Line: At times I almost believed it: madness Last Line: Yes, and my heart going like mad and yes saying yes I will yes! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S TO-DO LIST: SUM-SUM-SUMMERTIME, by ANDREA CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Monday: figure out what to wear - white dress? Last Line: Water flowers on windowsill %hide everything Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S WRITING TABLE IN HER BEDROOM AT THE HOMESTEAD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chair next to her writing table Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S WRITING TABLE IN HER BEDROOM AT THE HOMESTEAD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chair next to her writing table Last Line: Out of that house, it would have to come from me Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON, BISMARCK AND THE ROADRUNNER'S INQUIRY, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: I never thought for a moment Last Line: I would go ahead and do this %without hint or indication %you would accept me, %dear emily Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY IN CHOIR, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emily holds her father's hand; %she dances in place Last Line: And of the butterfly - %and of the breeze - amen! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY'S BREAD, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Inside the prize-winning blue-ribbon loaf of bread Last Line: They long to eat the green old meadow %where they used to live Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY'S GOLD, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: Long ago is a processed, sticky amber Last Line: Peering at a scribbled recipe Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY'S WORDS, by LESLIE MONSOUR Poem Source First Line: Unsquandered, sure and quiet as a root Last Line: The coffin was astonishingly small Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form EVERGREENS, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: About to suffer restoration Last Line: Happy at last in the grave Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Home FEATHERED FRIENDS, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: A splendid fellow in the grass Last Line: And quivering with cold Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) FOR EMILY (DICKINSON), by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The girl - working the xerox in the stationery store Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Popular Culture - United States FOR EMILY (DICKINSON), by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The girl - working the xerox in the stationery store Last Line: I knew you - when you %still had hair! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Popular Culture - United States FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by MARIANNE BORUCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I stood for a moment Last Line: There were seven. I lookep us, %too amazed to tell her Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by HORTENSE LAUDAUER Poem Source First Line: The gates were triple adamant Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) FROWNING AT EMILY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The entire room was frowning at emily Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) FROWNING AT EMILY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The entire room was frowning at emily Last Line: But hell, we're grateful for whatever comes, aren't we Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) GIVE ME SHOOTS, YOU SAID, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: If I were a monk of some other age, or nun Last Line: Give me shoots,' you said, 'from your gardens.' Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) HALF-CRACKED POETESS', by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On my finger an antique ring I hadn't Last Line: Except, what is it seeing? - and why? Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) HD/ED, by AIFE MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Hd and I arrived in new haven the same year: I came directly from Last Line: Entering me. 'their breath was your gift.' Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) HOMAGE TO DICKINSON, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never longed for the annulments of heaven Last Line: Tomb, my own woman. Finally. And forever Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Homage & Respect HOMAGE TO DICKINSON, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never longed for the annulments of heaven Last Line: I would be alone, alone, in my maidenly %tomb, my own woman. Finally. And forever Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) HOPE IS THE THING WITH WHISKERS (AFTER DICKINSON), by DAVID SHEVIN Poem Source Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) HOUSES OF EMILY DICKINSON, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: It is, of course, the wrong house Last Line: All houses, for her, it seems, are right Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) I AM IN DANGER - SIR -', by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half-cracked' to higginson, living Last Line: Chose to have it out at last %on your own premises Variant Title(s): 'i Am In Danger - Sir - '; "i Am In Danger-sir- Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) IMPOSSIBLE MARRIAGE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bride disappears. After twenty minutes of searching Last Line: Anchoret of amherst! O reticent kosmos of brooklyn! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) IN AND COME IN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stupid? Of course that older lot were stupid Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) IN AND COME IN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stupid? Of course that older lot were stupid Last Line: And yet there's something does know in that poem Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) IN THE FLESH, by LEE MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: I am tired of males swearing undying love for emily dickinson Last Line: The last one hangs by a thread. %her ears weren't pierced, he says Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) INSTANCES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walt whitman took the earth to bed Last Line: Poets are mad. Are bankers sane? Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950); Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) LEPIDOPTERAN, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning a steady drizzle, forsythia Last Line: Of silver coins, a butterfly extinguished in the sea Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Hull, Lynda (1954-1994) LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like me, you used to write while baking bread Last Line: I take from you, as you take me apart Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LETTER TO MISS DICKINSON, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I awoke this morning far from amherst Last Line: Your tongue iams of passion %and statuary stone Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LETTERS TO DEAD IMAGISTS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emily dickinson Last Line: Nor the mumblings and shots that rise from dreams on call. Subject(s): Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LINES WRITTEN AT COLUMBIA, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was like a blue blackboard from which Subject(s): Memory; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LITHOGRAPH OF AMHERST, by LYNN STRONGIN Poem Source First Line: The calm ribbon of air %is %a lost language lesson Last Line: The shining black inkwell. Then moved on Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LOVE POEM FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by BRUCE MEYER Poem Source First Line: I dreamt of your black house Last Line: And kiss in the mortified land Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) MATRIARCHLY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave this part away from me Last Line: To bring it on again Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers MISS EMILY'S MAGGIE' REMEMBERS, by JEAN BALDERSTON Poem Source First Line: But sure she saw the sea Last Line: The breakers in her head Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) MORNING AFTER, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Sunday morning, blues on the radio Last Line: And all the house is fast asleep Variant Title(s): Lost And Foun Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Travel MOST EMILY OF ALL, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you dream wood I dream water Last Line: Till my clove-brown eyes begot a taller blue Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) MOST SENSUAL OF RECLUSES, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were hesitant to address letters in your own hand Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: WONDER BREAD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What eucharist of air and bland Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: WONDER BREAD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What eucharist of air and bland Last Line: What - does not console? Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) NOT TO FORGET MISS DICKINSON, by MARSHALL SCHACHT Poem Source First Line: Flavor the speaking of this one Last Line: Of singing in a room beleagured %up to its sills by the gnawing fact Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) OF WOMEN WHO WEAR WHITE, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a farm girl %practicing ballet Last Line: The world's black needle %wobbling to north %would turn pearl to find Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) PALLBEARERS AT EMILY DICKINSON'S FUNERAL, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: She died at sunset facing west Last Line: And resurrection's skiffs embark %at dew's velocity Subject(s): Death; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Funerals PATH BETWEEN HOUSES, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: Some nights there is a lamp burning when the house next door is Last Line: Betrayal in your own stiff heart Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY DICKINSON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After great pain, a formal feeling comes Last Line: That wouldn't happen to him, and we happily kissed Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY DICKINSON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After great pain, a formal feeling comes Last Line: Not to worry, honey, %that wouldn't happen to him, and we happily kissed Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There are the countless, returning new england widows Last Line: With alabaster. And suffer affliction like an insect. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Habits; New England; Widows & Widowers QUEEN RECLUSE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: If, then, the moon would be a good place to place the jews Last Line: Moors with metronomes of prayer. Earthly lesion, parish of my home Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) SENSING DUNCAN, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know this poem by emily dickinson? Asked Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers SISTERS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot Last Line: Well, never mind that now. Good night! Good night! Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) SITTING WITH MYSELF IN THE SETON HALL DELI AT 12 O'CLOCK THURSDAY, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read with them, when I hear them Last Line: All these various voices? Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) SITTING WITH MYSELF IN THE SETON HALL DELI AT 12 O'CLOCK THURSDAY, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read with them, when I hear them Last Line: I wish we could hear all the writings from people's notebooks Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) SNOW CRAZY COPYBOOK, SELS., by JAMES HAZARD Poem Source First Line: Lying in the dark, breathing slow, my chest growing with every breath Last Line: Nothing in this life is too slow for me Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Love SOME CALL IT CHILDHOOD: 1. TWICE ALIVE: DETROIT; THE SECRET..., by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Not yet the blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz Last Line: The windows failing-oh the wonder!-of her dying Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Sisters; Survival SPELUNKING, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Our flames reach very short Last Line: The moving beam glistens %on emily's white dress Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) STILL LIFE WITH RIDDLE, by THOMAS (TOM) WAYNE KOONTZ Poem Source First Line: It's something there behind the light blue-bottled Last Line: For a bell. Sustains the chord with white. Now drops the I Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TAKING OFF EMILY DICKINSON'S CLOTHES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, her tippet made of tulle Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Love - Erotic; Love TAKING OFF EMILY DICKINSON'S CLOTHES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, her tippet made of tulle Last Line: That looks right at you with a yellow eye Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Erotic Love; Love TEACHING EMILY DICKINSON, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What starts as one more monday morning class Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TEACHING EMILY DICKINSON, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What starts as one more monday morning class Last Line: Opens its wings. They spread. They cover us: %myraid lives foreshortened into word Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) THE DECONSTRUCTION OF EMILY DICKINSON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The lecture had ended when I came in Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) THE IMPOSSIBLE MARRIAGE, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bride disappears. After twenty minutes of searching Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) THE MYSTERY OF EMILY DICKINSON, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the weather goes on for days Last Line: Unless there was time, and eternity's plenty. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Women THE SISTERS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) THE UNNAMING, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walked through the house, taking away its names Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) THERE'S BEEN A DEATH IN THE OPPOSITE HOUSE', by JEANIE THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: On my back porch, jesse and david Subject(s): Death; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) THREE EMILYS, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These women crying in my head Last Line: I am the one %uncomforted Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Carr, Emily (1871-1945); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Paintings And Painters; Writing And Writers TO DICKINSON, by DIANE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Seriously and politely I tell the story to persons of the loss of you Last Line: Way - you may be the best person who has ever lived Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARY BOWEN BRAINERD Poem Text First Line: A harp aeolian, on a lonely sill Last Line: Yet bearing ever nature's sad refrain. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College TO EMILY DICKINSON, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who desire so much - in vain to ask Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TO EMILY DICKINSON, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who desire so much - in vain to ask Last Line: Leaves ormus rubyless, and ophir chill. %else tears heap all within one clay-cold hill Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TO EMILY DICKINSON, by JOYCE LANCASTER Poem Source First Line: Crispy %fragrant petals Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TO EMILY DICKINSON, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear emily, my tears would burn your page, Last Line: In that hard argument which led to god Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TO EMILY DICKINSON, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear emily, my tears would burn your page, Last Line: In that hard argument which led to god. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TRIBUTE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there are no words left to live Last Line: Not over, but upon Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TRIBUTE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there are no words left to live Last Line: Not over, but upon Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TWO GHOSTS, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amherst. Dark hemlocks conspiring at the first church midway Last Line: R: 'after great pain -' %e: oh! %r: emily? Emily! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) UNNAMING, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walked through the house, taking away its names Last Line: Appallingly blank, waiting to be renamed Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) UPPER STORY, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As emily dickinson %would not come down, I'm Last Line: As if that buzzing, when she died, %were here still amplified Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) VERMONT SUMMER, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Walking this morning through the forest Last Line: Yours was the harvest of small mysteries Variant Title(s): Thinking Of Emily Dickinson At Bread Loaf, Vermon Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) VISITING EMILY DICKINSON, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood in the cupola for a while Last Line: Voices starting to drift up from downstairs, %somebody calling my name Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE, by LEO CONNELLAN Poem Source First Line: Where else would we go first in amherst Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robert francis has moved, since his stroke, into town, and he takes Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Francis, Robert (1901-1987) VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black iron fence closes the graves in Last Line: And we clamber out of sleep, holding on to it with our hands Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Francis, Robert (1901-1987) VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robert francis has moved, since his stroke, into town, and he takes Last Line: Us?...For this I have abandoned all my other lives.' Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) WHEN I READ A REVIEW OF THE JOHN TRAVOLTA FILM, MICHAEL, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And that emily dickinson once said %that hope is a thing with feathers but Last Line: Been more real to emily than any litany, %any psalms or hymns Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) WHO GOES TO DINE MUST TAKE HIS FEAST', by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: The way a horse knows Last Line: In this landmark of my arrival Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) WITH APOLOGIES TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARLA J. STURDY Poem Source First Line: Did the harebell loose her girdle Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) WOMEN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION: 2, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep in the hills, in the noon sun, when we come Last Line: Of the white election Variant Title(s): A Book Of Days: 6 Dickinso Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) WOMEN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION: 2, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep in the hills, in the noon sun, when we come Last Line: And opposition's %complement is opposition still Variant Title(s): A Book Of Days 6; Dickinso Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN WISCONSIN YOU ARE 140, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the wits of the school' your chum would say Last Line: Hot diggity! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN WISCONSIN YOU ARE 140, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the wits of the school' your chum would say Last Line: And yours & yours & yours! %hot diggity! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) |
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